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Royal persons : patriarchal monarchy and the feminine principle.
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ISBN: 0044453760 Year: 1990 Publisher: London Hyman

Lacan et les sciences sociales : le déclin du père, 1938-1953
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ISBN: 213051460X 9782130514602 Year: 2001 Volume: *89 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

The practice of patriarchy : gender and the politics of household authority in early modern France
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ISBN: 0271017821 027101783X Year: 1998 Publisher: Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State university press

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The Practice of Patriarchy examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Making creative use of judicial and notarial records, Julie Hardwick brings to life a little-known aspect of early modern culture: the daily experience of middling urban families-from work to family to neighborhood to involvement in local politics. [publisher's description]

Patriarchy, property and death in the Roman family
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ISBN: 0521326036 0521599784 0511582994 0511001940 9780511001949 9780511582998 9780521326032 9780521599788 Year: 1994 Volume: 25 Publisher: Cambridge [England] New York Cambridge University Press

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The figure of the Roman father has traditionally provided the pattern of patriarchy in European thought. This book shows how the social realities and cultural representations diverged from this paradigm. Demographic analysis and computer simulation demonstrate that before adulthood most Romans lost their fathers by death. Close reading of Latin texts reveals Roman fathers as devoted and loving and not harsh exploitative masters of slaves. The demographic and cultural contexts deepen our understanding of how the patrimony was transmitted.

Gender, sex and subordination in England, 1500-1800
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ISBN: 0300065310 0300076509 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Yale University Press

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Men and women in early modern England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the social and cultural dominance of the male - has long been a fundamental feature of western civilization, yet has only recently begun to be systematically investigated by historians. Fletcher's account draws from a vast range of sources to investigate the mechanisms through which men and women interpreted and understood their social worlds. He explores the early modern view of the body, of sexual desire and appetites, and of gender difference. He looks at the nature of marital relationships, and shows how subordination was implemented and consolidated through church, school, home and community. He also exposes patriarchy's tragic consequences: smothered opportunity, crushed sexuality, and a pall across many women's lives. Yet, over these three centuries, the conventional foundations of male superiority came under acute pressure. Fletcher reveals the depth of male anxiety in the face of women's volatility, verbal assertiveness and alleged vibrant sexuality, and shows how the gender system began to be transformed as men sought to detach it from its biblical foundations and inculcate gender identities on something like their modern ideological basis. This revolution in the entire premise upon which gender was grounded is fundamental to an understanding of the structure of English society today.


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Sworn Enemies
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ISBN: 9783110290394 9783110290530 3110290537 3110290391 Year: 2013 Volume: 436 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Sworn Enemies explains how the book of Ezekiel uses formulaic language from the exodus origin tradition - especially YHWH's oath - to craft an identity for the Judahite exiles. This language openly refutes an autochthonous origin tradition preferred by the non-exiled Judahites while covertly challenging Babylonian claims that YHWH was no longer worthy of worship. After specifying the layers of meaning in the divine oath, the book shows how Ezekiel uses these connotations to construct an explicit, public transcript that denies and mocks the non-exiles' appeals to a combined Abraham and Jacob tradition (e.g. Ezek 35). Simultaneously, Ezekiel employs the oath's exodus connotations to support a disguised polemic that resists Babylonian claims that YHWH was powerless to help the exiles. When YHWH swears "as I live" the text goes on to implicitly replace Marduk with YHWH as the deity who controls nations and history (e.g. Ezek 17). Ezekiel, thus, shares the "monotheistic" concepts found in Deutero-Isaiah and elsewhere. Finally, using James C. Scott's concept of hidden transcripts, the author shows how both polemics cooperate to define a legitimate Judahite nationalism and faithful Yahwism that allows the exiles to resist these threatening "others".

Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love
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ISBN: 1282069586 9786612069581 0226059901 9780226059907 9780226059723 0226059723 0226059723 0226059731 9780226059730 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago (Ill.) : University of Chicago press,

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Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from-or antidote to-ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman actually are. Through analyses of a broad range of patristic and medieval texts, Bloch explores the Christian construction of gender in which the flesh is feminized, the feminine is aestheticized, and aesthetics are condemned in theological terms. Tracing the underlying theme of virginity from the Church Fathers to the courtly poets, Bloch establishes the continuity between early Christian antifeminism and the idealization of woman that emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. In conclusion he explains the likely social, economic, and legal causes for the seeming inversion of the terms of misogyny into those of an idealizing tradition of love that exists alongside its earlier avatar until the current era. This startling study will be of great value to students of medieval literature as well as to historians of culture and gender.


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The complete poems of Tibullus
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ISBN: 1280116765 9786613521057 0520952413 9780520952416 9780520272538 0520272536 9780520272545 0520272544 9781280116766 6613521051 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Tibullus is considered one of the finest exponents of Latin lyric in the golden age of Rome, during the Emperor Augustus's reign, and his poetry retains its enduring beauty and appeal. Together these works provide an important document for anyone who seeks to understand Roman culture and sexuality and the origins of Western poetry.• The new translation by Rodney Dennis and Michael Putnam conveys to students the elegance and wit of the original poems.• Ideal for courses on classical literature, classical civilization, Roman history, comparative literature, and the classical tradition and reception.• The Latin verses will be printed side-by-side with the English text.• Explanatory notes and a glossary elucidate context and describe key names, places, and events.• An introduction by Julia Haig Gaisser provides the necessary historical and social background to the poet's life and works.• Includes the poems of Sulpicia and Lygdamus, transmitted with the text of Tibullus and formerly ascribed to him.

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